Editorial Disorders
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One must marvel at politically motivated editorial writers and other developmentally disabled persons.
Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than at the San Francisco Chronicle (well, perhaps the New York Times, but theirs is a case of chemical dementia, not organic inanity). Today their Op/Ed page was littered with text so irrational that I read it as a plea for strong men in white jackets to come to their rescue.
To wit, a piece of low grade effluvium titled “Afghanistan on the edge“. The piece begins with a standard propagandist tactic of making a false statement in the opening paragraph, to set a foundation of argument for the remainder of the diatribe. In that paragraph the Chronic’s editors proclaim that a recent bombing was “… proof of the U.S. failure to prevail in a country that should have been our central front in the war on terrorism.”
First, how did we not “prevail”? No doubt the enemies that are al Queda and the Taliban make feeble attempts from time to time to disrupt life in Afghanistan, but the U.S. did indeed prevail. In short order, not only did the we drive the Taliban nearly into a collective grave, we continue to kill their members. Just last year a minor stink was raised when some of our soldiers taunted some Taliban bastards while roasting the remains of their fallen jihadists.
But more to the point: when was the last report from Afghanistan that women were being shot in the back of the head for unveiling their faces in public? When were young girls last barred from going to school? At what point did the populace arise against the American “occupiers”? These manifest changes somehow elude an organization that supposedly keeps up on the news (I say “supposedly” because what is reported in the Chronic bears little resemblance to actual world events).
More inexplicable than the Chronic’s ineptness at reporting news is their inability to make rational judgements. In the same paragraph cited above, the editors at the local fish wrapper factory claimed Afghanistan was the “… central front in the war on terrorism.”
The Chronicle sure don’t understand terrorism, jihad, or al Queda.
The current infestation of Islamofacists is a completely decentralized network, rarely relying on central command and control, much less central operational support. This war, the Third World War, the one declared by bin Laden in 1996, is global in scope. The Islamos have attached in Russian, China, Southeast Asia, South America, New York, and in the air over the Atlantic. There is no “central front” because there is no center of an organization, nor a central target on their death list.
I could continue dissecting the Chronicle’s crazed composition, but I have tickets to see Joe Ely, Guy Clark, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett tonight, and one minute of their music means more to the collective sanity and safety of the world than a million column inches of the Chronicle’s editorial disorder.
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